DBWorks Guided Tour Customization
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Adding custom fields and customize interface
 

You can add fields to your data base using a separate graphic tool and specify for which type of documents the fields will be available. The tool prevents from modifying the fields necessary for the correct functioning of the program.

After defining a new field, each time you save a document for which the field has been defined, you find the value in the properties of the file and therefore in the SolidWorks BOM.

The process of adding a field includes a guided tool that allows you to add immediately the field to the tables and/or to one of the pages contained in the dialog for viewing/editing records.

DBWorks is provided with graphic tools that enable you to modify his interface. You can choose which fields to display in the tables and reorganize all the fields in the dialog used for record viewing and editing.

Moreover, you have access to all the functionalities of management of the data and revisions history from:
  • the main page in the interface of DBWorks
  • the tree page in DBWorks
  • the query page in DBWorks
  • the added page in the Feature Manager in SolidWorks
  • the SolidWorks documents while designing

You thus find the DBWorks commands at disposal everywhere and can choose your interface of best adapts to the way you work or to the kind of project you're working on.


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Shortcut bar
 

The shortcut bar is a bar in Outlook style which contains short cuts with the most common queries and scripts, which will always be at most two clicks away.

The buttons can be grouped and personalized using a graphic tool which helps you to organize them and add new ones as you create them.

DBWorks is provided with a series of added short cuts to the most common and useful functions such as the search of non existing files, the documents blocked by other users on the network or the documents checked out by the current user.


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Customizable entries in the popup menus
 

All the scripts you create, plus all the added command that are provided as scripts can be added to the contextual menus.

The operation is absolutely simple: you just have to move the files in special directories. It is significant to note that the directories can be protected by the administrator from the network and made also invisible to users while being fully functional to DBWorks.
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VBScript API
 

The VBScript language from Microsoft in version WSH is at disposal to intercept more the share of the events and to manage them with programs in the form of script. DBWorks provides a whole series of functions which enable you to guide the application of outside and to automate the most common tasks.

You also have at disposal script in phase of editation of the fields and in the variable texts of the settings in plan to display the complex search or computation results.

If you already wrote the macro ones for SolidWorks, you will be very well with DBWorks.


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Events management
 

The scripting VBScript can intercept all the main events in the program. You can automate the most common or most delicate tasks:

  • Recalculate the value of a field each time another is modified.
  • Update to the variant texts during each validation to ensure you that printed documentation is an absolutely reliable reference.
  • Manage the backup and the opening of the documents to establish in your company an automatic and uniform system of coding.
  • Have complete control over editing.


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Editing fields
 

You can establish procedures to be followed during the editing of field values to guide the users. DBWorks allows you to:

  • Oblige the user to choose from a list of value, either indicated explicitly, or queried in another database in real time.
  • Automatically modify the values of other fields (for example, change the density can modifies the mass properties automatically).
  • Call scripts, applications or COM objects to carry out advanced editing for specific fields.
  • Validate the data before accepting the modifications.
  • Create through specific scripts a very flexible system of security.


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Categorization of the documents
 

It is possible for you to arrange and find the documents on the basis of field values and according to a tree of categories.

The documents can be named automatically according to the system of existing coding in your catalogue and be found through intelligent search which limits the number of documents as you define the properties of the document which you seek.

Save and open the documents either by choosing their name or by providing information on the type, use, geometry and all this in a uniform way across your company.
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